Samsung Is No Longer The Most Important Company For Android's Successhttp://www.businessinsider.com/samsung-is-no-longer-the-most-important-company-for-androids-success-2013-7/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Fri, 09 Dec 2016 23:07:07 -0500Jay Yarowhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d35a756bb3f78268000006Watson 2Tue, 02 Jul 2013 18:55:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d35a756bb3f78268000006
Who cares about cheap Chinese junk.
Android is a free platform, so of course the low quality Chinese manufacturers are going to use that to peddle cheap devices to drive most of the growth.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d2d3b4eab8ea111c00000dMobileGeorgeTue, 02 Jul 2013 09:20:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d2d3b4eab8ea111c00000d
The latest releases of Android require at least 1 GB of RAM to work smoothly. Windows Phone can run well in 256 MB of RAM. Not sure how Android even has a chance of competing in the low end.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d26d7cecad04ba17000021OtherWayTue, 02 Jul 2013 02:04:44 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d26d7cecad04ba17000021
yes, people are mostly using android phones as feature phones. and switch to another os is easy.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d199cceab8ea425a000009AmsterdamMon, 01 Jul 2013 11:01:32 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51d199cceab8ea425a000009
Microsof is advised to sell a cheap smartphone to gain the marketshare needed to get more apps, in fact the only thing they can do is give their phones away for free it seems.
But if Android is gaining market share because of payable devices being sold around the world that's a bad thing as the owners aren't smart enough to use the internet with their new device?
Seems most inplausible to me. Emerging countries, thirld world as we used to call them, are simply passing the PC era and going direct to mobile internet. They will use internet and apps, but not necessarily from the playstore.
Android gives common people an opportunity to emerge from poverty, it's a new technology conquering the world, at least outside the US. Buyers should not be dismissed as mistaken feature phoners, I think that's gravely underestimating them.